Wire-fence machine



(No Model.)

A. J.v FORSYTHE. WIRE FENCE IMIAGlElIlIE.A

No. 519,603. Patented May 8, 1894.

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ofwejur f UNITED -STATES PATENT ANDREW J.. FORSYTHE, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA.f f

WIRE-FENCE MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Ifa'tent No. 519,603, dated May8, 1 894.

Application led October 11, 1893. Serial No. 487,848. (No model.) l

To all whom tima/y concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. FoRsYTHE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State ofIndiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-FenceMachines,

and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled .in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements' in devices for twisting the wiresof that class of wire fences comprising double horizontal strands anddouble vertical stay wires.

The object ofthe invention is to provide a device for holding thehorizontal wires while being twisted and it consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofa wire fence showing my improved device and the manner of usingthe same.Fig. 2 is a similar View of the holder folded. Fig. 3 is a similar view,unfolded; and Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of the twisters.

In the said drawings the reference-numerals 1 and 2 designate twovertical bars, connected together near the top and bottom by hinges 3.The bar l is provided at each.v end with laterally projecting arms 4,formed with 'notches 5, which arms are also provided with pivotedcatches 6. The bar 2 is provided with` a number of holders 7, eachvconsistingof a metal bar secured at one end to the bar 2, and the otherend reduced or cut away and twisted into a hook 8, which is adapted toengage with the horizontal wires of the fence. I have illustrated tenoffthese holders in the drawings, but more or less may be employed iffound desirable.

The numeral 9 designatesa twister consisting of a metal bar having agroove or notch 10 at one end. At or about its center this bar is formedwith a laterally projecting arm 12, formed with a groove or notch 13, atits outer end. 'lhe upper and lower varms 4 and inthe drawings only twoof such are shown as being double, the rest being single.

The operation is as follows: The double horizontal and single horizontalwiresare first secured to the fence posts, as usual,'and the doublevertical stay wires are then inserted in place between the strands ofthe double horizontal wires. These stay wires consist, preferably, of asingle piece of wire of proper length bent over/upon itself at itscenter and the ends passed down outside of the top horizontal wire andthen between the strands of the double horizontal wires, so that thebend will engage with said top horizontal wire. The hooked ends of theholders of bar 2l are now engaged with the horizontal wires and the bar1, folded on the bar 2, and held in place by the pivoted catches 6,engaging with the top and bottom holders. The top and bottom horizontalwires engage with the notches 4 and the verticalwires to be twisted liebetween the strands ofthe dou- -ble horizontal wires. The twisters, twobeing employed, are now brought into use, the grooves in the lendsthereof being engaged with the double horizontal wires, and saidtwisters rotated in opposite directions, which will twist the strands ofsaid double wires at opposite sides of the vertical stay wires, thussecurely holding the latter in place. The lateral arms of said twistersare then engaged with the stay wire above and below thedoublezhorizontal wires, just twisted, and by ro- `rating saidtwistersin opposite directions the stay wire will' also be twisted.Whenthe 95 stay wires have been thus twisted the catches 6 aredisengaged from the holder and bar 1 .,unfolded, so that the said barmaybe moved upto the nextsta'y-wire. By the above means IOO the wires canbe twisted in a rapid and efbottom arms and holders for holding the bars1o cient manner without any liability ofthe stayin a folded position,substantially as described.

wire slipping after being twisted. In testimony that I claim theforegoing as Having thus described my invention, what my own Ihavehereunto aixed my signature 5 I claim is in presence of twowitnesses.

The combination of the hinged bars l and ANDREW J. FORSYTHE. 2, thenotched arms secured to bar l, the Witnesses: hookedholders secured tothe bar 2, and the D. E. MURPHY,

pivoted catches for engaging with the top and FRANK FORSYTHE.

